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Unfair

To put it simply for the sake of this forum, as is emphasized in Chapter 9 of my book: In 2045, who will be California governor?

Anyone who has subscribed to The New York Review of Books has witnessed authors' complaints that a reviewer has misunderstood or misrepresented his work.

Now here am I in the same boat.

In the initial paragraphs of Brian Tanguay's review of my ebook The Wizard of Sacramento: Governor Jerry Brown , he writes: “In October of his final year in office, Brown signed a bill establishing a goal of 100 percent clean electricity by 2045 … In his book ...William Smithers paints a very different portrait of Jerry Brown.”